Andrew LeMessurier — Creative Director & Visual Communication Strategist

What I Bring

CAPABILITIES

“If you can’t see it, it doesn’t exist.”

That’s not a design philosophy — it’s a business reality. Technology that can’t be visualized can’t be funded, can’t earn regulatory approval, and can’t be adopted by the people who need to use it. Visual communication, directed at the strategic level, is what makes complex technology real to the audiences who matter.

Visual Strategy & Creative Direction

Most organizations separate strategy from execution. I don’t. I direct at the strategic level — controlling narrative, maintaining brand integrity, and placing the right assets in front of the right audiences — while bringing the technical depth to brief and manage outside suppliers with precision most creative directors can’t.

3D Visualization & Technical Animation

Four decades of making complex technology visible — facility fly-overs, process cutaways, subsea systems, SAGD operations, safety procedures, and new energy installations. Work that has supported investment decisions, regulatory approvals, and public acceptance at the largest scale in Canadian energy.

Investor & Stakeholder Communications

Pitch decks, investor packages, executive presentations, and regulatory submissions built for audiences who aren’t engineers — but whose decisions determine whether a technology survives. The goal is never a beautiful document. The goal is a funded one.

Leadership & Advisory

For organizations that need senior visual communications leadership without a full-time hire — I can embed, guide, or advise at the executive level. Available for Calgary-based or remote engagements across energy, cleantech, and industrial sectors.

Oil Sands · 3D Visualization · ConocoPhillips

SURMONT SAGD FACILITY — FORT McMURRAY

FOUR DECADES
OF MAKING THE
COMPLEX CLEAR

DRY-GRIND ETHANOL FACILITY — WICHITA, KANSAS

PROTECT · Aerial Sequence

PROTECT

Ongoing · Remote

Lead Communications Advisor & Animation Producer

Guiding visual strategy and producing safe operating procedure and risk analysis animations for PROTECT — a service provider specializing in safety, reliability, risk management, compliance, and operator training for the ethanol and broader renewable fuels industry.

Referred by an established engineering firm, I delivered the initial project work. Six years later, PROTECT approached me to take over from their incumbent supplier.

Industrial Safety & Process Visualization · Animation · Strategy

ATS ENERGY

Contract · Calgary

Brand & Communications Lead

Built and managed the complete visual communications program for a breakthrough new energy company capturing wasted industrial heat to generate power — 3D renderings, animations, branding, pitch presentations, and a 120-page investor package.

The sustained effort culminated in an Earthshot Prize-winning submission for ATS Energy — partly because the technology had been communicated clearly enough to be understood by everyone evaluating it.

New Energy · Investor Comms · 3D Visualization · Earthshot Prize

CANADIAN ENERGY REGULATOR

2019–2020 · Calgary

Visual Communications Specialist

Visual strategist and designer on a senior communications team at the Canadian Energy Regulator — translating complex regulatory content into clear, accessible visuals for national audiences. High-stakes work where clarity directly affects public trust and compliance.

In regulated industries, the quality of public communication isn’t cosmetic — it has direct consequences for trust, compliance, and social licence.

Regulatory · Rebrand · Motion Graphics

CONOCOPHILLIPS

2016–2017 · Calgary

Design & 3D Visualization Specialist

Embedded visual communications specialist within ConocoPhillips — one of the world’s largest energy companies. Responsible for internal and external communications, executive presentations, and community outreach, while handling confidential and proprietary information at the enterprise level.

The centrepiece of this engagement was leading the creation of a fully rendered model of the Surmont SAGD facility — Canada’s second largest in situ operation at ~150,000 bpd. That work is part of a broader body of oil sands visualization spanning four of Canada’s largest SAGD operations, collectively producing over 500,000 barrels per day.

3D Visualization · Enterprise · Oil & Gas

TC ENERGY

In-House · Calgary

Visual Communications Designer

In-house visual communications for one of Canada’s largest energy infrastructure companies — supporting internal teams, executive leadership, and public-facing communications across the full spectrum of the organization’s needs.

Projects included annual reports, shareholder meetings, confidential executive presentations, pipeline mapping, motion graphics for community outreach, tradeshow installations, and environmental displays. In infrastructure at this scale, community acceptance is not a given — it has to be earned through communication that is clear, credible, and consistent.

Energy Infrastructure · Annual Reports · Motion

AEC / ENCANA

Earlier Career · Calgary

Visual Communications Specialist

Visual communications for AEC International — with a heavy focus on South American oil and gas projects, internal and external communications, executive presentations, mapping, and general illustrative work. Following the landmark merger forming EnCana, one of the largest corporate mergers in Canadian energy history, that work expanded to support cultural integration and market confidence during a major organizational transition.

Merger Rebrand · Corporate Identity · Energy

GENESIS LAND

2009–2011 · Calgary

Marketing Manager

Senior marketing leadership across four business units: residential, multi-family, commercial and land development. Responsible for strategy, executive presentations, budget management, sales centre design and technology integration, and corporate brand unification across the organization — reducing costs while strengthening market presence and visual consistency.

Marketing Leadership · Brand Strategy · Multi-Unit

Case Study — ATS Energy

ATS ENERGY — BUILDING A TECHNOLOGY’S ENTIRE VISUAL VOICE

ATS Energy developed a breakthrough technology that captures wasted industrial heat and converts it to power. I was brought in to make that technology visible — to build, manage, and sustain the visual communications that would carry it from concept to global recognition. Over several years, that meant 3D renderings, animations, branding, pitch presentations, performance visualizations, and a comprehensive 120-page investor package that brought together the technology story, market opportunity, ROI projections, and the global impact case.

The whole effort culminated in an Earthshot Prize-winning submission for ATS Energy — the globally recognized environmental award founded by Prince William — bringing worldwide attention to a technology that had been communicated clearly enough to be understood by everyone from climate scientists to the general public.

This is what closing the gap actually looks like. A technology that could have remained invisible to the people who needed to act on it instead reached the highest levels of global recognition — because it was finally understood.

MOTION &
ANIMATION

Twenty years of technical animation for energy, industrial safety, and new technology clients — facility fly-overs, process cutaways, and motion graphics. Hover to preview. Click to play with sound.